Canada Feeds the U.S. Crocodile: Charlie Angus

 

One story, one act of resistance at a time. Canada Feeds the Crocodile CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE MAR 1   READ IN APP   This morning, I keep thinking about Winston Churchill, and the powerful allegory he used to warn that the appeaser is the man who feeds others to the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. This is the only way I can make sense of our Prime Minister’s support for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to plunge the Middle East into war. Last month, Prime Minister Carney rallied the world at Davos by telling middle powers that in this age of gangsters, it was no longer good enough to “go along to get along.” The Prime Minister spoke those words as Donald Trump was making clear his plans to tear apart the Western alliance and replace the United Nations with his autocrat/gangster gang who make up the Board of Peace. But on Iran, Carney has chosen to go along. Sure, the support might be tepid, but it is support nonetheless. The Prime Minister has claimed that this was about removing the threat of nuclear weapons. This is false, and the Prime Minister knows this. He said that Iran posed a threat to regional peace. And yet he stands with Netanyahu, who has carried out a horrific genocide in Gaza, broken international law in the West Bank, bombed Syria, Lebanon and is now declaring war on Iran. Iran has not posed a credible nuclear threat in years. The claim by Trump is even less credible than the Rumsfeld claim that the search for weapons of mass destruction was necessary to launch the massively destructive war in Iraq. But in that case, George Bush Jr. brought the case to the United Nations. The world assessed the evidence, and Canada, at that time, took the principled position of not going along with the invasion. This time, the United Nations has been totally sidelined. This is a unilateral act of war by two gangster regimes. In Trump’s case, it is a full-scale war to divert attention from Epstein and his sinking poll numbers. This is not about debating how brutal the Iranian regime is. It is about whether the international rule of law and the United Nations still have a place in resolving conflicts. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin are waging war on the crumbling notion of law, sovereignty and war crimes. On this issue, Canada doesn’t get to go along to get along. If the PM isn’t going to be the one to call allied nations to seek a UN solution to resolve further escalation, then who will be there to stand up for the rule of law? It comes back to the crocodile. We gave our tepid thumbs up to the illegal invasion of Venezuela. We are now supporting the mass bombing of Iran. What happens when Trump moves forward with his “friendly” takeover of Cuba? Perhaps the thinking in Ottawa is that by becoming mired in a Middle East war, Trump will be distracted from his obsession with breaking our nation. Playing nice with crocodiles in the hope that they will be nice to us never ends well. Charlie Angus / The Resistance is a reader-supported publication — please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thank you. Upgrade to paid This post is public — feel free to share it. Share Thank you for reading Charlie Angus / The Resistance. If you’d like to upgrade to a paid subscription your support will help keep this project independent and sustainable. I’m grateful to have you here - thank you for your support. Upgrade to paid   LIKE COMMENT RESTACK   © 2026 Charlie Angus PO Box 74173, Ottawa RPO Beechwood, Ontario K1M 2H9  Unsubscribe

Prime Minister Carney's Canadian leadership in new world order: Charlie Angus/The Resistance

 

The Rise of Canada and the Furious Idiot of Davos CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE JAN 23   READ IN APP   Donald Trump’s collapse at Davos was worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. He came to Europe “full of sound and fury” with Western allies quaking in their boots. He demanded that the people of Greenland submit. He threatened his former allies in Europe. He bragged about a military invasion by saying that “there is no going back.” But Trump arrived one day late. Prime Minister Mark Carney had already punctured his balloon with a groundbreaking speech that was measured, honest and fearless. By the time Trump arrived, he was, as Macbeth would say, a “walking shadow” of America’s once dominant presence, “strutting and fretting on the stage… signifying nothing.” This was the first time that it wasn’t Trump who sent shockwaves around the world. He was totally upstaged by Canada’s Prime Minister. Mr. Carney said what everyone was thinking, but nobody would dare say. The PM threw down the gauntlet to the world. “The rules-based order is fading, and the strong [believe] they can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. There is a strong tendency for countries to go along, get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety. Well, it won’t.” “Intermediate powers like Canada are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states.” The message was clear: this new world order of democratic nations does not include gangster states like the United States or Russia. To countries that are being bullied and threatened by an increasingly unhinged United States, Canada offered another way. The speech has shaken up the global political order and is reverberating in the corridors of power from Mexico to Australia. The Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers described Carney’s speech as “stunning,” and it is now putting enormous pressure on the Australian government to repudiate the terrible trade deal they recently signed with Trump. In the UK, PM Keir Starmer is being called out for his pitiful efforts to continually placate the Americans. Faced with threats of military invasion from a neighbour and ally, Starmer tried to tell everyone to remain calm because he was worried about tariffs. Trump responded to this obsequious approach with public ridicule. Both media and political analysts in Europe are calling on the EU to follow the Carney lead and stand up to the American threat. The order of the Western world has shifted. Canada has become the visible leader of the free world on the international stage. But make no mistake, there will be payback. Big payback. The humiliated Trump issued a classic gangster threat, telling Canadians that we had better remember that “Canada lives because of the United States.” And then, right on cue, he took to social media to rescind the invitation for Canada to join his “prestigious” Board of Peace. (Director’s note: Trump gathers toys, exists stage left) A year ago, we may have worried about such threats. But we are a tougher people now. This brings me back to the statements I have been making about the necessity of preparing and considering the price we are willing to pay to truly break free from the American hegemony. Up until now, it has felt like we were alone. But not anymore. Carney’s speech wasn’t exactly the rousing defiance of Henry V on St. Crispen’s Day, but it didn’t need to be. This was the measured, decent and unafraid voice of Canada, showing the world that if we hold together, we can salvage something from these dark times. Trump will be coming for us. Hard. But we’ve got this.  Charlie Angus / The Resistance is a reader-supported publication - please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thank you. Upgrade to paid This post is public — feel free to share it. Share Thank you for reading Charlie Angus / The Resistance. If you’d like to upgrade to a paid subscription your support will help keep this project independent and sustainable. I’m grateful to have you here - thank you for your support. Upgrade to paid   LIKE COMMENT RESTACK   © 2026 Charlie Angus PO Box 74173, Ottawa RPO Beechwood, Ontario K1M 2H9  Unsubscribe The Guardian article on new Carney speech: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/carney-says-canada-must-be-a-beacon-to-a-world-thats-at-sea